This is the highest-level body of the Andean Integration System (SAI). It is responsible for issuing Guidelines about different spheres of Andean subregional integration, which are then implemented by the bodies and institutions of the System in accordance with the spheres of responsability and mechanisms established in their respective Treaties and Instruments.

The Council is comprised by the Presidents of the Member Countries. It has a Chairman who represents the Andean Community at the highest political level and holds that position for a period of one calendar year, after which it is rotated successively. The body meets regularly once a year and may meet in special session any time it deems it advisable.

The Council defines subregional integration policy; orient and promote actions on matters of interest to the subregion; evaluates the course and results of the integration process; examines all issues and matters connected with the progress of integration and its relations with the world; and considers and hands down pronouncements about the reports and recommendations put forward by the organs and institutions of the SAI.